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comic opera

Word definitions for comic opera in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken [syn: opera bouffe , bouffe , opera comique ]

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Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa , emerged as an alternative to opera seria ...

Usage examples of comic opera.

Take it from me, the time is just about ripe for a revival of comic opera.

The people who say that Hitler is Antichrist, or alternatively, the Holy Ghost, are nearer an understanding of the truth than the intellectuals who for ten dreadful years have kept it up that he is merely a figure out of comic opera, not worth taking seriously.